ISDA 2014 is seeking original high quality Workshops and Special Sessions proposals focused on significant topics and emerging issues which are related to the conference theme and with the desired expertise. Interdisciplinary session themes are strongly sought after. Each special session resembles a mini-conference within the main ISDA meeting and will run throughout the conference in parallel to other tracks (except the keynote presentations).

Workshop / Session organizer (s) will be responsible for advertising, promoting, managing paper selection and chairing the parallel special session during the conference. Papers will be reviewed by the panel reviewers from the Session Program Committee and approved by the General Conference Program Committee. Each Workshop should have at least 10 papers and Special Session is expected to have at least 5 papers and at least one author of each paper must register for the paper present during the session. Special Session paper submission will be done through ISDA 2014 submission system and been evaluated with the same standard as the regular conference paper. All accepted papers will be included in the ISDA 2014 conference proceedings.

Financial Constraints

Workshops and Special Sessions are an integral part of the ISDA 2014 meeting. Workshop / Special Session chair and speakers will have to pay their expenses (unless waived by the General Chairs) and therefore, we highly encourage session organizers to seek independent funding, and to include any commitment that they may have secured in the proposal. ISDA 2014 will help in the administrative aspects of assigning the rooms, announcements and adding the detailed schedule to the conference program. Note that the ISDA 2014 cannot financially support the speakers or the Special Session organizer (s).

Submission Evaluation

All proposal submissions will be reviewed by the ISDA 2014 special session chair and the general conference committee. The following criteria will be considered:

• Relevance, interest, and value of the topic to ISDA 2014 attendees.
• Complementarity to the ISDA 2014 program provided by the other tracks.
• Completeness, clarity, and quality of the session proposal.
• Qualification of the submitter (s) to organize the workshop.
• Likely success of the proposed session.
• Overlap with other proposal or pre-selected activity.

Submission Guidelines

Please send the Workshop / Special Session proposals to the respective chairs with the following information:

• Title of the Workshop / Special Sessions
• Rationale of the need and objective of the session
• Session outline
• Specific topics of interest
• Short biography of the proposed session chair(s)
• List of potential reviewers panel, including, affiliations and contact information

Workshop Chair
Belgacem Ben Hedia: Belgacem.ben-hedia@cea.fr

Important Dates
submission page opens Jul 31 2014, 23:59
submission page opens only for updates of existing submissions Aug 20 2014, 23:59
submission page closes Aug 25 2014, 23:59

Submission link
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isda2014specialsessi

Organized Special Sessions

SS1: Machine Learning: Contemporary research and applications till 2014
This special session aims at joining the contemporary research about machine Learning. Therefore, the presentation of works tackling theoretical issues and applications on machine learning is welcomed. The problem complexity is increasing and there is a wide variety of approaches to deal with it. Also a number of factors may be considered for the suitable choice of a concrete machine learning model.

- List of topics.
The topics of interest for this special session include, but are not limited to:
* Machine Learning
* Computational Intelligence
* Databases and data mining
* Fuzzy Systems
* Intelligent applications
* Bioinformatics
* Signal mining
* Classification
* Regression
* Data fusion
* Granular computing
* Cloud computing
* Web intelligence
* Deep Learning
* Hybrid Intelligent Systems
* Complex and Biological Inspired systems
* Bio-Inspired Computation, Evolutionary Computing, Evolutionary
*Programming and Evolutionary Strategies
* Meta-Heuristics: Theory and Foundations

Session chairs: Hideyuki Takagi and Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros
Contact information: atallon@us.es, University of Seville (Spain)

SS2: Data pre-processing techniques for industrial applications
Session chair: Dr. Valentina Colla
Contact information: colla@sssup.it, Istituto di Tecnologie della Comunicazione, ITALY

SS3: International Workshop on Computational Intelligence: Theory & Applications
Session chair: Mohamed Ben Halima,The Higher Institute of Computer Science and Multimedia, University of Sfax -Tunisia